LA Times Hires Right Before They Fire
Times staffers are bracing for another round of newsroom layoffs, expected to hit next week. Makes the hiring of a reporter for the Sacramento bureau seem a little ill-timed. Below is the newsroom memo from assistant managing editor David Lauter, found at LA Observed:
I’m delighted to announce that Jack Dolan, a prize-winning reporter for the Miami Herald, will be joining us shortly after the first of the year as a new reporter in our Sacramento bureau.
Last year, Jack was a key reporter on a series of stories in the Herald that showed how Florida’s lax regulation of mortgage brokers had allowed thousands of felons, including people convicted of fraud and theft, to peddle mortgages to unsuspecting borrowers.
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